[linux-cifs-client] CIFS regression in 2.6.26

Martin Koegler mkoegler at auto.tuwien.ac.at
Mon Aug 4 22:49:45 GMT 2008


On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 02:22:04PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 19:32:59 +0200
> mkoegler at auto.tuwien.ac.at (Martin Koegler) wrote:
> > Upgrading the kernel from 2.6.25 to 2.6.26 broke CIFS again. KDE
> > refuses to start on a CIFS homedirectory now. Some testing showed, that
> > fundamental operations are not working any more:
[...]
> Sounds like problems constructing a proper pathname...
> 
> The mount options unfortunately don't show the prefixpath (if any).
> What's the actual "devicename" that you're mounting? If you're mounting
> a subdirectory of a share (for instance, //host/share/subdir), then
> you may need to update your mount.cifs helper to something more
> recent.

I'm mounting the root of a share, not an subdirectory. The server is
Debian stable.

mfg Martin Kögler


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